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Every man and the local soi dog has a copy of your passport. I do cross them when I remember but there must be hundreds of uncrossed copies out there after 14 years. Nothing untoward has happened (yet).

Actually, the bank (whilst trying to be helpful) shouldn't have accepted just a copy without seeing the original. They certainly wouldn't (ok shouldn't) be signing off finanace without sighting the original.

One uncrossed copy, I really wouldn't worry.

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Every man and the local soi dog has a copy of your passport. I do cross them when I remember but there must be hundreds of uncrossed copies out there after 14 years. Nothing untoward has happened (yet).

Actually, the bank (whilst trying to be helpful) shouldn't have accepted just a copy without seeing the original. They certainly wouldn't (ok shouldn't) be signing off finanace without sighting the original.

One uncrossed copy, I really wouldn't worry.

555 , thanks alot .

thats the thing , they were taking a long time to do it so i told them

i would just do it at a later time , the guy didnt even tell me why it was taking so long ( as i didnt have my original passport with me) so in the end i left without my atm card which kinda sucked as i waited about half an hour for him to go thru all the info ...

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im very worried what may happen if one of the stafff tried to do something funny with my passport copy .

They have copies of your passport galore anyhow, and will ask for another for many a simple task. Not much you can do about it... I am guessing between immigration, banks, hotels, driving licence place, where I rented vehicles etc etc there must be a few hundred of mine floating around Thailand. I even once received a bit of paper from immigration and it was obvious they were recycling, as on the reverse was a full copy of some rather ugly German guy's passport.

OP: Don't worry, cross-sign when you remember to... but if you forget it’s no biggie... it’s almost impossible for a foreigner to do anything without extra copies of every document you have ever possessed and then some you don't !

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I've been a K Bank customer for 15 years. Every time I withdraw funds from a branch other than the branch where I opened my account, which is almost all the time, they photocopy my passport and I have to sign the copy. They must have many hundreds of copies of my passport, and I've never had a problem. Not to say something nefarious could never happen, but I think the chances are slim and none, and most likely none.